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1 | Noah entered the ark--exactly when? | Gen 7:1 | rghollenbeck | 225503 | ||
Genesis chapter 7: I'm a little confused. In verse 1, God says, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark". Verse 4 says, "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth." Verse 5 says, "And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him." Verse 7 says, "And Noah went in, . . ." Then the animals came in. Okay it's seven days before the flood, right? read on. . . I always imagined Noah and his sons rounding up the animals. But as I read it this time, it looks as if Noah and his family were already in the boat when the animals came in by themselves? This is seven days before the flood came. But in verse 13, it says "In the selfsame day [as the rain came] entered Noah . . . into the ark. " " . . .And the Lord shut them in." Okay, which is it? Was Noah and family hold up in that ark full of stinky animals a week before the flood began or were they able to enter and exit at will until God finally shut them in just before the rain started? I think it has theological significance **if the ark is a type of the rapture.** I don't believe God wants us coming and going in and out of a relationship with him, etc. But the text of Genesis 7 seems to indicate that Noah entered a week earlier and now, a week later, (v.13)"In the selfsame day" he's entering it again. And the animals are getting on board again too! This is confusing. As I understand it, the late Dr. Walter Martin of the Christian Research Institute didn't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. If the rapture happens just prior to the seven year period of trouble on the earth, is there significance that Noah and all that were being saved had to be "on the bus" seven days prior to departure? I've always been a "pre-trib" guy thinking the rapture would come prior to the tribulation. The way I'm reading this now, Maybe Dr. Martin could have been right, or I might have my imagery all wrong. Or maybe I'm reading it wrong. Maybe sitting in the ark the seven days represents the church waiting out the tribulation in the sky with the Lord, and the conclusion of the tribulation (in this case the flood), we are lifted up as the Ark was lifted up. I'm still trying to figure this out. That symbolism doesn't really work for me because I always understood we would be returning to the earth with the Lord after the seven year period. I'm not done here. I'm still thinking about it. My head hurts. I'll go get a cup of coffee and read it again in another version. I'm very fond of the KJV, but I often go to the NKJV, NASB, and NIV for a little different twist on it. |
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2 | Noah entered the ark--exactly when? | Gen 7:1 | EdB | 225504 | ||
I think what you are seeing is what we see all through the early pages of the Book of Genesis. We are first given a narrative and then right after, in the next verses or next chapter we are given a more detailed account of what was previously spoken of. The early verses (4-7) here are telling what happened and the later are fleshing out some of the details. I think Noah and his family were on the ark 7 days before the downpour that flooded the world came. Now to link this story as symbolism pointing to the rapture is a little iffy. Anyone can see similarities between this story and concept of the pretrib rapture. But was that in fact God's intent? Or is this a nonconnected story that just happens to play into something that was never intended to be seen? We all love the story of the rapture, God is going to take us before things gets bad. However if you are Christian living in a northern African Muslim controlled country, and have seen everything you own destroyed, everyone you loved killed, and you own life in eminent danger it is hard to imagine things getting any worst. Teaching/preaching of the rapture does not have the same reception there as it does in comfortable, warm and safe America. |
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3 | Noah entered the ark--exactly when? | Gen 7:1 | DocTrinsograce | 225510 | ||
Amen... well said. | ||||||